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Westlund looks out his office window on a harbor.

AmNav port captain credits team with safety award nomination

November 5, 2020 Hilary Reeves 974 Views amnav, California, leadership, Maritime, Safety, safety award, Safety Culture, saltchuk family, san francisco, Tug Captain, tugboat, tugs

Brad Westlund: ‘I’m most proud of the culture my coworkers have worked hard to create. We guard it jealously.’ According to AmNav Port Captain Brad Westlund, anything worth doing is worth doing right – a personal motto of sorts that

Parrott smiles with one hand on a dock rail and the other holding his Foss hard hat, a Foss tugboat is docked behind him.

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Foss chief no stranger to adventure

July 18, 2016 Emily Reiter 1162 Views Carlile, family, Foss, foss shipyard, Kings Point, Maritime, merchant marine, naval academy, naval reserve station, pan am, portugal, sailor, Seattle, seattle university, TOTE Maritime

Seattle-native John Parrott’s maritime experience rooted in childhood at sea By Hilary Reeves When John Parrott was five years old, his parents decided to move the family from Seattle to Portugal. It was 1969. “My dad was working (as a

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SBX Port Captain reflects on years at sea

May 20, 2016 Emily Reiter 953 Views Jacksonville, Maritime, Mass Maritime, Port captain, Saltchuk Women's Leadership Initiative, SBX, TOTE, TOTE Services, women

Eunice Cadorette Young’s maritime career was a dream worth pursuing By Hilary Reeves Boston-native Eunice Cadorette Young’s dream of a career spent at sea sailed to the forefront of her imagination in high school. She never met her grandfather, a